Konchog Lhadrepa
| PersonType | Category:Artists Category:Authors of Tibetan Works |
|---|---|
| FirstName / namefirst | Konchog |
| LastName / namelast | Lhadrepa |
| MainNamePhon | Konchog Lhadrepa |
| MainNameTib | དཀོན་མཆོག་ལྷ་བྲིས་པ་ |
| MainNameWylie | dkon mchog lha bris pa |
| SortName | Lhadrepa |
| namealt | dkon mchog lha bris pa |
| bio | Renowned Tibetan artist and teacher based at Shechen Monastery in Nepal and the principal The Shechen Institute of Traditional Tibetan Art, or “Tsering Art School”. He was a student of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He passed away in April 2025. See also  See also Shambhala Publications: https://www.shambhala.com/authors/g-n/konchog-lhadrepa.html and his book The Art of Awakening (2017). From an official Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche Facebook Post on April 10, 2025: In Loving Memory of Master Painter Konchog Lhadrepa With deep sorrow, we share the passing of the extraordinary master painter Konchog Lhadrepa, who departed this life yesterday in Delhi, at the age of 70. For over five decades, Konchog-la served Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Shechen Monastery with unwavering devotion and boundless artistic vision. A true torchbearer of the Karma Gadri tradition of Eastern Tibet, he was the founder and director of Tsering Art School in Nepal, where, over the past 25 years, he trained and inspired a new generation of gifted thangka painters. His legacy lives on not only through his students, but in the countless sacred images that continue to bless and beautify this world. From his first monumental frescoes at Kangyur Rinpoche’s monastery in Darjeeling in the 1970s, to the resplendent murals at Shechen Monastery in the 1980s—and again, after the devastating earthquakes of 2015—Konchog-la’s hands shaped a legacy of luminous devotion. Throughout his life, he painted and oversaw the creation of hundreds of thangkas, each a window into the sacred. He leaves behind not only the vivid brilliance of his art, but the quiet radiance of a life lived in service to the Dharma. May his journey onward be filled with light. May his legacy continue to inspire. ... Konchog Lhadrepa devoted his whole life to serving his guru Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, who he attended from the age of ten. When he was nineteen, Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche sent Konchog to Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim to train in the Karma Gadri tradition of painting with the famed painter Lhadre Tragyel. Konchog la completed the training in a remarkably swift period and since then spent his life as an artist in this tradition devoted to the service of Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, fulfilling mural and thangka commissions for Shechen Monastery and its branch organizations abroad and then running the Tsering Art School since 1996... |
| YearDeath | 2025 |
| associatedwebsite | https://shechen.org/cultural-preservation/art-school/ |
| IsInGyatsa | No |
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